VIRTUAL RADIO CHANNEL BASED WIRELESS CONNECTIVITY

A radio access network, RAN, node of a wireless communication network maintains a radio channel having a network-side termination at the RAN node and a subscriber-side termination at a wireless access device. Further, the RAN node maintains one or more further radio channels. The one or more further radio channels each have a network-side termination at the RAN node and a respective subscriber-side termination at a respective further wireless access device. The RAN node associates the radio channel and the one or more further radio channels to a virtual radio channel for carrying data between the RAN node and the wireless access device. The one or more further wireless access devices are assigned for forwarding data between the wireless access device and the respective further radio channel having its subscriber-side termination at the further wireless access device.